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Jules & Lisa Couch Catch-Up: Love Language Mismatches, Christmas Obsessions, November Mantras, & More!
This week, Jules and Lisa sit down for another hilarious and heartfelt debrief about love languages, November burnout, and the beautiful madness that is Christmas.
From the art of acts of service (“don’t do that without asking me first!”) to the suspicious side of bin duties, Jules and Lisa unpack what it really means to give and receive love when your partner’s language just doesn’t match your own.
The chat takes an unmissable turn into church antics like, the moment Lisa confidently said “(bow)” out loud during Mass and continues through family traditions, chaos management, and why November feels like a full-blown emotional marathon. They open up about Guy’s year of surgeries, the juggle of motherhood and work, and the delicate dance of keeping Christmas magic alive when you’ve never had the same Christmas twice.
It’s a warm, witty, and wildly relatable chat that perfectly captures friendship, family, and festive-season fatigue, all wrapped up with laughter, honesty, and hydralyte.
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18. Current Life Edit: On Energy, Overwhelm and What's Really Taking Up Our Brain Space | Jules & Lisa Johnston
36:26||Season 3, Ep. 18Welcome to the first Current Life Edit, a brand new kind of episode where Jules and her manager and friend Lisa Johnston pull back the curtain on exactly what's going on in their lives, in real time. No guest, no script, just a handful of honest questions and wherever the answers take them. It's the kind of unfiltered, feet up chat you have with your best mate, and it might all change by next week.In this first edit, the girls get into what's actually giving them energy right now (sunshine, pools and saunas for Jules, a secret sugar free Red Bull for Lisa), and what's quietly draining them, from the dreaded ten o'clock "what's for dinner" text to a brain that feels like the spinning wheel of death that never lands on anything. They talk about the mental load of scheduling exercise, the chaos of signing the kids up for too many sports, and the generational rabbit hole that ends with Jules realising she's not actually a millennial. There's a lot of laughing, a little existential spiralling, a surprising new love of watching footy ahead of the grand final, and a genuinely lovely thread about wanting more time, more books and more hours to help other people.Pour yourself a cup of tea and settle in.CHAPTERS00:00 — Welcome to Current Life Edit: Life in Real Time 00:54 — What's Giving Us Energy: Sunshine, Pools and Saunas 02:42 — Lisa's Confession: The Secret Sugar Free Red Bull 05:46 — Holding On for Daylight Savings and Longer Days 06:41 — What's Draining Us: The 10am "What's For Dinner" Text 08:02 — The Spinning Wheel of Death: A Brain That Never Stops 09:50 — Are We Millennials? Jules' Generational Identity Crisis 12:57 — What's Taking Up Brain Space: The Battle to Schedule Exercise 13:50 — Too Many Sports: The Chaos We Sign Ourselves Up For 19:12 — What We Want More Of: Time, Books and Helping People 20:30 — Why Reading a Physical Book Still Beats Everything 23:20 — What We're Excited About: Becoming Sporty Gals 24:50 — Grand Final Fever and Childhood Footy Memories 27:00 — What We're Reading: Book Club That Isn't Really About Books 29:40 — What We're Watching: New Girl, Housewives and Sterling Point 35:50 — Wrapping Up the First Current Life EditConnect with JulesGet Jules' NewsletterWatch Tea with Jules on YouTubeFollow Tea with Jules on InstagramFollow Jules on TikTokCreditsProduced by ME EntertainmentProducers: @lisajohnston_, @julessebastian, @EggoauSound Engineer, Video, Editor & Music: Mathew Eggleston – @Eggoau
17. The Secret To Backing Yourself, Feeling Good and Building a Life You Love | Sally Obermeder
01:04:29||Season 3, Ep. 17Television presenter, author, entrepreneur and mum of two Sally Obermeder returns to Tea with Jules, eleven years after her first visit. The day before she welcomed her daughter Annabel, Sally was diagnosed with aggressive stage 3 breast cancer, entering motherhood while facing chemotherapy, surgery and enormous uncertainty. What she built on the other side of that is a story of pure resilience.In this warm, funny and genuinely useful chat, Sally and Jules talk about backing yourself when you feel completely ordinary, taking the leap before you can see the other side, and the quiet belief that if she can do it, you can too. Sally opens up with real honesty about the fear that she had used up all her good luck surviving cancer, running a business through a stressful name change (Swish is now Ziish), why the bigger a business gets the heavier the load, and the pressure social media puts on all of us to do everything at once. Then the girls get practical with Sally's no fuss wellness routine, before finishing on Real Housewives of Sydney, the lesson it unexpectedly taught her, and a beautiful reminder to put yourself back on the list.Connect with Sally Obermeder and Ziish:Website: ziish.comInstagram: @sallyobermederSALLY'S SIMPLE WELLNESS ROUTINESally's "how to start" guide for anyone feeling overwhelmed by where to begin (from around the 33 minute mark):Start simple. Don't buy everything. Pick just one or two areas you struggle with most, usually energy, skin or sleep.Morning: A super greens shot to bridge the gap on the vegetables most of us don't eat, plus an NAD supplement for cellular energy.Through the day: Add collagen to your coffee or tea for skin.Night: Choose one, a sleep support if you need it, or hair and gut health support if you don't.Also worth it in your 40s: Creatine every day (women only need three to five grams, not the 20 grams the gym myths are based on), and getting your protein up, which is where an unflavoured protein you can add to any meal comes in.CHAPTERS00:00 — Welcome Back, Sally Obermeder: Eleven Years On02:14 — The Intention: If She Can Do It, So Can You04:43 — Finding Purpose, and Why Feeling Good Changes Everything06:07 — Life Is a Rollercoaster, Not a Steady Climb07:52 — The Skill of Backing Yourself and Taking the Leap11:02 — Feeling Like She'd Used Up All Her Good Luck14:33 — How Therapy Helped Her Let Go of the Story She Was Carrying16:22 — Ambition, and Why the Goalposts Always Move19:48 — Jumping From Lily Pad to Lily Pad: Running on Gut Instinct22:40 — The Highlight Reel: Why Nobody Is Really "Killing It"24:00 — Running a Business Is Like Being a Firefighter27:40 — The Name Change, the Trademark Battle and the Bonfire of Cash32:36 — Getting Practical: Where to Start With Wellness33:58 — Sally's Simple Morning and Night Routine37:20 — Creatine, Protein and the Myths Worth Debunking42:20 — You Can't Pour From an Empty Cup: Putting Yourself in the Loop45:41 — Real Housewives of Sydney: How It Came About56:41 — On the Personal Brand Pressure and Simpler Social Media Days57:57 — Complete This Sentence: Sally's Rapid Fire Round01:03:58 — Sally's Pearl of Wisdom: You Are Enough01:04:15 — Wrapping Up Tea with JulesConnect with JulesGet Jules' NewsletterWatch Tea with Jules on YouTubeFollow Tea with Jules on InstagramFollow Jules on TikTokCreditsProduced by ME EntertainmentProducers: @lisajohnston_, @julessebastian, @EggoauSound Engineer, Video, Editor & Music: Mathew Eggleston – @Eggoau
16. Getting Older, Losing Your Mind and the Friendship That Gets You Through | Lisa Johnston
41:53||Season 3, Ep. 16Strap in for a good old fashioned catch up.In this episode, Jules sits down with her manager, dear friend and fan favourite Lisa Johnston for one of their much loved life chats. No agenda, no big lessons, just two friends, a lot of banter and some very funny stories. Consider this your permission to feel completely normal about all the chaos of everyday life.Spring has sprung, and with it comes the great return of leg shaving, a deep and important debate about waxing versus laser, and an unforgettable confession about the rogue chin hairs that arrive out of nowhere the moment you hit a certain age. It's the kind of honest, nobody says this out loud chat that makes you feel gloriously seen.From there the girls get into Lisa's brave new era on the netball court, the uniform reality nobody warned her about.This is a warm, silly, feel good episode about the small stuff that makes up a real life. Pour yourself a cup of tea and settle in for a laugh.CHAPTERS00:00 — Welcome Back, Lisa Johnston00:40 — Spring Has Sprung, and So Has the Leg Shaving01:18 — The Great Debate: Waxing vs Laser02:33 — Let's Talk About the Rogue Chin Hairs05:46 — Lisa's Brave New Era: Joining a Netball Team08:24 — The Uniform Nobody Warned Her About10:29 — The Marathon, the Runners and a Lot of Admiration12:02 — Could We All Benefit From a Few Gels?14:46 — The Saga Begins: The Case of the Missing Purse18:43 — Then the Keys Went (And They Cost a Fortune)21:02 — And Then the AirPods24:30 — Losing Absolutely Everything: A Very Relatable Spiral27:11 — Lisa Comes Bearing a Gift: The Notebook28:40 — Writing It All Down, Every Single Day32:40 — The Netball Grand Final Heartbreak36:34 — On Sideline Yelling and Being the Scary Coach38:53 — Coach Lisa: Adding It to the Bio39:50 — Words to Live By: Don't Lose Stuff40:34 — The Theme Park and the Car Keys41:09 — Wrapping Up Tea with JulesConnect with JulesGet Jules' NewsletterWatch Tea with Jules on YouTubeFollow Tea with Jules on InstagramFollow Jules on TikTokCreditsProduced by ME EntertainmentProducers: @lisajohnston_, @julessebastian, @EggoauSound Engineer, Video, Editor & Music: Mathew Eggleston – @Eggoau
15. The Woman Behind Big Little Lies on Storytelling, Success and Returning to the Book That Changed Everything | Liane Moriarty
58:57||Season 3, Ep. 15Liane Moriarty is one of Australia's most loved and successful authors, the brilliant mind behind Big Little Lies, Nine Perfect Strangers and The Husband's Secret, and so many other stories that have captivated millions of readers around the world.Her writing is funny, clever, sometimes dark, and always incredibly observant about the way we live, love and relate to one another. And now she's returning to the world of Big Little Lies with her new novel, Big Little Truths.In this joyful and fascinating conversation, Jules, a self confessed book lover who treats authors like rock stars, sits down with Liane to go behind the curtain of one of the great writing careers. They begin with Liane's origin story, growing up the eldest of six, and the dad who paid her a dollar a book to write stories as a child, giving her her very first publishing deal. She shares the winding road through advertising and marketing, the sisterly rivalry that lit the spark, and how she finally came to write her first novel.Liane is wonderfully candid about the craft itself, why she doesn't read her own genre, how she treats writing like a nine to five job, where her ideas actually come from, and the panic of having an idea that's a little too close to someone else's. Liane tells the story of Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon optioning Big Little Lies, what it was like to live with her characters as they came to life on screen, the strange experience of watching someone else interpret your work, and being bored on a set surrounded by Meryl Streep, Laura Dern and Reese Witherspoon.Warm, funny and full of insight, this is a real treat for book lovers and storytellers alike. Pour yourself a cup of tea and settle in.Connect with Liane Moriarty:Website: https://www.lianemoriarty.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lianemoriartyauthor/CHAPTERS00:00 — Introducing Liane Moriarty00:44 — Like Having Beyoncé in the Chair: Jules the Super Fan01:36 — The Origin Story: Eldest of Six and a Family of Storytellers02:13 — The Dad Who Paid a Dollar a Book: Her First Publishing Deal02:28 — Dead Man's Island and the Enid Blyton Influence03:32 — The Winding Road Through Advertising and Marketing04:14 — The Sister Who Published First, and the Spark It Lit07:05 — Why She Doesn't Read Her Own Genre08:14 — Treating Writing Like a Nine to Five Job10:00 — Where the Ideas Actually Come From12:35 — The Panic of an Idea That's a Little Too Close13:55 — Plotting, Pantsing and Finding the Story17:23 — The Balance of Light and Dark in Life and Fiction19:01 — When Your Books Aren't for Everyone19:39 — Writing So the Reader Feels Okay at the End22:19 — The Introvert Who Observes Everything25:41 — Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon and the Call That Changed Everything27:19 — "If We Option It, Get Excited"28:37 — Living With Your Characters as They Come to Life on Screen30:23 — When a Character Is Different on Screen Than on the Page32:03 — Why Everyone Interprets a Book Differently34:57 — Bored on Set With Meryl Streep, Laura Dern and Reese Witherspoon37:02 — Big Little Truths: The Women Are Perimenopausal Now38:03 — The Deeper Themes: Shame, Individuality and More38:37 — So What Are the Truths Now?41:57 — Why the Truth Is Always Changing42:49 — Two Audiences: The Book Readers and the Show Watchers49:04 — The Pressure of Success and the "What Does She Do Next" Feeling51:26 — Why She's Simply Looking Forward to the Next Book53:04 — Her One Profound Answer, and the Birthday Party Wisdom56:19 — If She Could Tell Her Younger Self One Thing: Wear Sunscreen57:32 — Wrapping Up Tea with JulesConnect with JulesGet Jules' NewsletterWatch Tea with Jules on YouTubeFollow Tea with Jules on InstagramFollow Jules on TikTokCreditsProduced by ME EntertainmentProducers: @lisajohnston_, @julessebastian, @EggoauSound Engineer, Video, Editor & Music: Mathew Eggleston – @Eggoau
14. On Building an Empire, Walking Away, and Finding What Really Matters | Lisa Messenger
57:13||Season 3, Ep. 14Lisa Messenger is one of Australia's most recognisable entrepreneurs, best known for building The Collective Hub into a global media brand that inspired millions of people to think differently about business, creativity and taking risks.But Lisa has never been someone to stand still. She has spent her career reinventing herself, and today that reinvention looks a little different. The Collective Hub has evolved into a digital community and app, she's become a passionate advocate for helping people embrace AI in practical ways, and she's continuing to challenge what modern entrepreneurship can look like. She's also, in her own words, living on a farm with 29 chickens, a three-year-old, and another baby on the way.In this warm and wide-ranging conversation, Jules and Lisa talk about reinvention, motherhood, identity, AI and what it really means to build a life that evolves as you do. Lisa opens up with remarkable honesty about the rise and the reality of The Collective Hub, growing too fast, losing control, and the brave decision to let go of the thing everyone knew her for. She and Jules go deep on the identity question that follows, who are you when the thing that defined you falls away, and how you learn to hold your achievements a little more loosely.This is an uplifting, honest and inspiring conversation about the courage to keep becoming who you're meant to be. Pour yourself a cup of tea and settle in.Connect with Lisa Messenger and The Collective Hub:Website: https://collectivehub.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lisamessenger/The Collective Hub: https://www.instagram.com/collectivehub/CHAPTERS00:00 — Introducing Lisa Messenger01:14 — Setting the Intention: Anything Is Possible01:33 — The Pinup Girl for Doing It Anyway02:33 — Farm Life, 29 Chickens and a Baby on the Way02:47 — Why She Says No More Than She Says Yes05:15 — The Queen of Reinvention06:22 — Forty Books and a Life of Curiosity07:52 — Writing Fiction: The Story of Jess and Justin08:15 — What's Next: The New Book, Matchstick11:07 — Where It Began: The Collective Hub Magazine14:50 — Growing Too Fast and Losing Control15:21 — The Systems and Processes She Never Had19:27 — The Brave Decision to Let It Go22:13 — Who Am I With All of That Stripped Away?23:05 — Attaching Your Identity to the Thing You Built25:26 — When Fewer People Want a Piece of You27:44 — We Meet People at Different Stages of Their Lives32:43 — The Collective Hub Reborn as a Community and App34:42 — Live Sessions, AI Tools and a New Digital Age37:55 — From Technologically Inept to AI Advocate41:04 — Model the Greats: How She Teaches AI42:53 — Her Simple Secret: Just Keep Asking45:20 — Getting Productive and Protecting Her Time46:41 — The Fertility Journey: Eight Years and 18 Rounds of IVF47:57 — Surrogacy and Welcoming a Second Baby48:55 — The Sweetest Question From Her Son51:57 — Why Success Means Less to Her Now53:45 — What She Wishes More Women Knew Before Chasing Success54:46 — Reinventing Is Fun55:19 — Barefoot, Giggling and Truly Happy56:16 — Wrapping Up Tea with JulesConnect with JulesGet Jules' NewsletterWatch Tea with Jules on YouTubeFollow Tea with Jules on InstagramFollow Jules on TikTokCreditsProduced by ME EntertainmentProducers: @lisajohnston_, @julessebastian, @EggoauSound Engineer, Video, Editor & Music: Mathew Eggleston – @Eggoau
13. The Truth About AI, and Why Women Can't Afford to Sit It Out | Dr Nici Sweaney
01:07:21||Season 3, Ep. 13Dr Nici Sweaney is one of Australia's leading voices on artificial intelligence, but what makes her story so compelling isn't just her credentials. It's her mission to make AI accessible, practical and empowering, especially for women.She understands AI from the inside out: the algorithms, the machine learning, the data, and the biases that shape the technology we're all beginning to rely on. In 2022, as generative AI emerged, Nici had a feeling the world was about to change. She famously woke her partner up in the middle of the night to say, this is going to change everything. She was right.Since launching AI Her Way, she has built a multi-million dollar business while raising four children, working a four day week, and teaching thousands of women how to confidently embrace AI rather than fear it. She was named Australia's Female AI Leader of the Year, featured on the Forbes Women 2025 list, and recognised by Microsoft as one of the top AI entrepreneurs to watch. Earlier this year, when Reese Witherspoon encouraged millions of women to start learning about AI, she pointed people toward just a handful of experts, including Dr Nici Sweaney.She's also refreshingly honest about the risks. Privacy and what you should never share, the emotional attachment trap, why these tools get things wrong, and the powerful conversations she has with her own children about how they use it. If AI has ever made you feel overwhelmed, behind or a little afraid, this is the conversation that changes everything. Pour yourself a cup of tea and settle in.Connect with Dr Nici Sweaney and AI Her Way:Website: https://aiherway.com.au/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ai_herway/CHAPTERS00:00 — Introducing Dr Nici Sweaney01:33 — Setting the Intention: Empowerment, Not Overwhelm02:32 — Let's Talk About the Fear Around AI04:33 — The Real Risk: Losing Our Creativity and Critical Thinking05:13 — Why Fear Isn't an Excuse to Step Away06:48 — Moving Fast: Don't Become an Early Lagger09:29 — Why Women Need to Help Shape AI Right Now13:04 — Bias, and Why These Tools Start to Represent Us14:47 — Privacy: What You Should Never Share15:44 — A Real Example: Using AI to Triage Your Inbox18:53 — The Emotional Attachment Trap19:17 — The Morning Her Five-Year-Old Ran In23:03 — Kids and AI: The Rules She Has at Home23:27 — The Exercise She Set Her Eleven-Year-Old25:24 — Why Our Kids Will Need These Skills29:30 — Think of AI Like an Intern29:46 — Or a Puppy You Have to Train28:37 — Why AI Gets Things Wrong, and How to Handle It32:03 — AI as the Operating System for Your Life37:01 — Where to Start: Just Pick One Task37:30 — The Magic Prompt: Ask AI to Interview You39:38 — Is It Supposed to Be This Hard?40:43 — A Simple Example: Making Time for Lunch43:25 — Custom GPTs and Getting AI to Read and Write for You47:31 — Running a Multi-Million Dollar Business With Two People48:40 — What Actually Is an AI Agent?49:16 — The Difference Between an Assistant and an Agent53:19 — How She Designs an Agent57:40 — Why Creativity Is Becoming Less About Technical Skill59:42 — The Place Only Humans Can Sit01:02:37 — The Gift of Time, and Why She Lies Awake Grateful01:04:23 — Her Biggest Fear if Women Don't Embrace AI01:04:54 — How You Know AI Is Being Used Well01:05:39 — Wrapping Up Tea with JulesConnect with JulesGet Jules' NewsletterWatch Tea with Jules on YouTubeFollow Tea with Jules on InstagramFollow Jules on TikTokCreditsProduced by ME EntertainmentProducers: @lisajohnston_, @julessebastian, @EggoauSound Engineer, Video, Editor & Music: Mathew Eggleston – @Eggoau
12. The Story Behind Bachelor Girl and One of Australia's Most Loved Songs | Tania Doko
01:02:34||Season 3, Ep. 12Tania Doko is the powerhouse voice behind Bachelor Girl, whose music has become part of the soundtrack to Australian life.Tania and James Roche formed Bachelor Girl in 1992, and their debut album Waiting for the Day went double platinum and won the ARIA Award for Producer of the Year. It delivered Buses and Trains, a song that won APRA Song of the Year, sits in Australia's 100 Greatest Songs, and remains one of the most played Australian songs of the past 25 years.Now Bachelor Girl are celebrating that iconic debut with a beautiful reimagined release, featuring Delta Goodrem, Jessica Mauboy, Darren Hayes, Tommy Emmanuel and, in a full circle moment for Jules, her husband Guy Sebastian. But this conversation goes far beyond fame and songwriting.Jules, a self confessed super fan, sits down with Tania to talk about the woman behind the voice. They explore how Tania first discovered she could sing and the natural high she has chased ever since, her Greek heritage and unconventional path into music, and the story of how Buses and Trains, a song she never dreamed would be a hit, came to capture the imagination of a nation.Connect with Tania Doko and Bachelor Girl:Website: https://taniadoko.com/Bachelor Girl: https://bachelorgirl.com/CHAPTERS00:00 — Introducing Tania Doko of Bachelor Girl01:08 — Jules the Super Fan Has Her Moment05:05 — Why Music Takes Us Back Like Nothing Else08:38 — Greek Heritage and an Unconventional Path Into Music12:55 — Discovering She Could Sing14:16 — The Natural High of Singing That's Never Been Replaced18:37 — Getting Signed by Two Major Labels21:04 — Buses and Trains: The Universal Song That Captured a Nation21:50 — Why She Never Thought It Would Be a Hit24:35 — Writing Songs in a Cubby House26:34 — Finding Success in Sweden and Scandinavia28:30 — Protecting the Voice: The Reality of Your Instrument35:56 — The Wedding Ring Story38:49 — Facing Burnout40:51 — The Brave Decision to Bring Bachelor Girl Back42:59 — Getting Comfortable With Being Uncomfortable44:25 — The Prison Gig That Moved Her to Tears45:52 — A Songwriter's Dream: Hearing the Album Reimagined50:06 — Going Into Hiding, and Coming Back Out51:39 — You Are Afraid, Reimagined With Kaylee Bell54:06 — Singing With Guy and the Full Circle Moment55:21 — The Meaning Behind Permission to Shine57:00 — The Most Adventurous Project of Her Career59:43 — A Live Moment: Stare at Real Love01:01:46 — Wrapping Up Tea with JulesConnect with JulesGet Jules' NewsletterWatch Tea with Jules on YouTubeFollow Tea with Jules on InstagramFollow Jules on TikTokCreditsProduced by ME EntertainmentProducers: @lisajohnston_, @julessebastian, @EggoauSound Engineer, Video, Editor & Music: Mathew Eggleston – @Eggoau
11. How to Reinvent Yourself, Let Go and Find What Really Matters | Pip Edwards
01:09:51||Season 3, Ep. 11Content note: this episode includes discussion of the Bondi tragedy and its aftermath. Please listen with care. If you need support, Lifeline is available 24/7 on 13 11 14.Pip Edwards is one of Australia's most recognised entrepreneurs and creative leaders. Best known for co-founding P.E Nation, she helped redefine the way women think about activewear, building a global brand that blended fashion, performance and culture. But in this conversation, it is not just about business. It is about everything that happens behind the success.Eleven years after her very first appearance on Tea with Jules, Pip returns for a conversation that goes far deeper than fashion. She and Jules talk about where her unwavering self belief really comes from, the show must go on mentality she inherited, and the years of hard situations the universe kept sending her way.Pip is remarkably open about the identity and purpose crisis that came with stepping away from P.E Nation, the brand that literally carried her initials. She talks about how those initials began to haunt her, the therapy and surrender it took to let go, and why standing down from the thing you built can be the bravest move of all. She shares the story of her new venture, and her powerful decision to put her voice behind breaking the silence on menopause, a topic she has been talking about openly for years before the rest of the world caught up.And she speaks, with extraordinary honesty and grace, about the day of the Bondi tragedy. How a friend rolled her under a van and shielded her. What it does to you to be that close to something so devastating. And the profound clarity that came after, about fear, purpose, her son, and what truly matters.This is an honest conversation about ambition, identity, reinvention and building a life that feels as good on the inside as it looks from the outside. Pour yourself a cup of tea and settle in.Connect with Pip Edwards: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pip_edwards1/ Biolae: https://www.instagram.com/biolaehealth/If this episode raised anything for you:Lifeline — 13 11 14 (24/7) — https://www.lifeline.org.auBeyond Blue — 1300 22 4636 — https://www.beyondblue.org.auCHAPTERS00:00 — Welcome Back, Pip Edwards01:23 — Eleven Years On: The OG Tea with Jules Guest Returns02:14 — What's in a Name: The Meaning Behind Pip09:11 — Clothes as a Second Skin: Style, Confidence and Owning Who You Are12:40 — Where Does the Self Belief Come From?13:27 — The Show Must Go On: High Standards and How She Was Raised15:14 — Through the Hard Years, and What They Taught Her20:00 — Building It Alone: Motherhood and Providing22:40 — When the Initials Started to Haunt Her25:01 — Letting Go of P.E Nation, the Brand That Was Her Baby26:21 — The Yes Girl Who Never Learned Balance31:13 — Add a Little Menopause to the Mix32:33 — The Identity and Purpose Crisis33:52 — Therapy, Surrender and Learning to Let Go36:04 — Why Standing Down Can Be the Bravest Thing37:45 — A New Venture and a New Chapter39:13 — Breaking the Silence on Menopause41:01 — The Symptoms, the Trial and Error, the Truth45:46 — Putting Her Voice Behind the Cause48:18 — The Day of the Bondi Tragedy50:17 — The Friend Who Shielded Her52:13 — Being Able to Talk About It, Through the Work57:04 — Acceptance, and What Really Matters58:15 — Skiing, and Crying Because She Was Alive01:00:32 — When Her Son Came Home01:04:45 — The Biggest Risk She Ever Took01:06:09 — Self-Care Isn't a Joke01:08:38 — Wrapping Up Tea with JulesConnect with JulesGet Jules' NewsletterWatch Tea with Jules on YouTubeFollow Tea with Jules on InstagramFollow Jules on TikTokCreditsProduced by ME EntertainmentProducers: @lisajohnston_, @julessebastian, @EggoauSound Engineer, Video, Editor & Music: Mathew Eggleston – @Eggoau
10. The Truth About Real Confidence, Body Image and Showing Up For Yourself | Emily Skye
01:02:27||Season 3, Ep. 10Emily Skye is one of Australia's most recognisable voices in fitness and wellbeing, but her story is about so much more than exercise.In this warm and honest conversation, Jules sits down with Emily to talk about what really sits beneath a life that looks strong from the outside. Emily opens up about growing up as an insecure, shy girl who couldn't cope with the everyday, her later ADHD and autism diagnoses, and the years she spent chasing love and acceptance in all the wrong places before discovering that movement made her feel, in her words, like a superhero.Emily is refreshingly real about the thing so many of us get stuck on: seeking validation from other people. Her message is simple and hard won. You cannot get worth from outside yourself. It doesn't work. Take it from her.Together, Jules and Emily explore why feeling good matters more than looking good, how to build movement into a busy life without the guilt, and why you have to put yourself first before you can show up for everyone else. They talk about the pressure women carry, navigating hormones and menopause, the power of strength training as we age, gut health, and learning to speak to yourself the way you'd speak to your own child.This is a conversation about confidence, self-worth and being kind to yourself in a world that constantly tells you you're not doing enough. You are. Pour yourself a cup of tea and settle in.Connect with Emily Skye:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emilyskyefit/Website: https://emilyskyefit.com/CHAPTERS00:00 — Welcome, Emily Skye01:21 — Her Intention: You're Not Alone, and You're Not Failing02:03 — The Shy, Insecure Girl Who Couldn't Cope02:52 — Understanding It Now: ADHD and Autism05:37 — Finding Fitness and Feeling Like a Superhero07:12 — Sharing It With the World, and Chasing the Wrong Things12:56 — The Hard Truth: Validation From Others Doesn't Work16:05 — Why How You Feel Inside Has to Come First17:39 — Don't Overthink It, Just Move19:54 — You Never Regret Exercising21:22 — Building the Habit and Setting Yourself Up to Win22:02 — Put Your Own Oxygen Mask on First25:09 — Feeling Good Beats Looking Good27:06 — Hormones, Menopause and a Changing Body29:52 — Releasing the Pressure: Why Do I Need To?32:47 — The Postpartum Moment That Changed Everything33:37 — Protect Your Peace: Removing the Triggers36:26 — Am I a Good Mum? The Questions We All Ask38:30 — Why Strength Training Is Gold as We Age43:30 — Gut Health and the Food That Fuels You50:52 — Back to Basics: Keep It Simple54:09 — Talk to Yourself the Way You'd Talk to Your Child55:48 — Letting Go of People Pleasing57:17 — Feeling Strongest When You Show Up for Yourself01:00:04 — The Never-Ending To-Do List01:00:38 — Wrapping Up Tea with JulesConnect with JulesGet Jules' NewsletterWatch Tea with Jules on YouTubeFollow Tea with Jules on InstagramFollow Jules on TikTokCreditsProduced by ME EntertainmentProducers: @lisajohnston_, @julessebastian, @EggoauSound Engineer, Video, Editor & Music: Mathew Eggleston – @Eggoau